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PROF. CARL GUSTAF SANTESSON, the eminent Swedish pharmacologist who died on July 26, was born in Stockholm on July 5, 1862, the son of the professor of surgery at the Karolinska Institutet. He received his medical education at Uppsala, Stockholm, and Lund, and qualified at Stockholm in 1890. During the next two years he studied pharmacology under Schmiedeberg at Strassburg and Boehm at Leipzig. On his return to Sweden he became lecturer in pharmacology at Uppsala, and in 1895 was appointed extraordinary professor in this subject at the Karolinska Institutet at Stockholm, becoming full professor in 1908. He retired in 1927.
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ROLLESTON, J. Prof. C. G. Santesson. Nature 144, 1039 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441039a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441039a0